AG - not that samlcarr needs my defense, but your concern seems to be more with him having doubts and confusion about his faith or faith in general rather than with him as a person. Did Christ put doctrine before people’s hearts?

Now, I don’t want to make too many assumptions like you did, but what is so troubling to you about finding God behind the strangest corners? Did God not make all things, and is he not in all things? In fact, did Paul not say that in Christ “all things on heaven and on earth” are being reconciled back to God?

Why then would you be surprised that God is in all things, or demand that someone you converse with has to quote scripture when he shares his thoughts with you? Does quoting scripture make one holy or better than another human being? What I always find surprising and shocking is the neatly folded theology that folks pull out of a drawer whenever they are confronted with doubts. It is true though - confronting doubts is much harder than ignoring them, and tearing down idolish paradigms is always more uncomfortable than swallowing doctrine whole without any questions.